2024 games inspire Raiders but poor for-and-against keeps them out of finals in 2025. Close call.
If the Raiders were looking for inspiration in 2025, they need only look at the final three games played in 2024.
With victories over the premiers, the Panthers, along with the Roosters and the Dragons, the Raiders came excruciatingly close to making the finals.
In the end, the Raiders' terrible for-and-against crushed their chances as they finished on the same points at the eighth-placed Newcastle.